Vacancies (2018, collaboration with Susy Bielak)

Vacancies explores the barriers between hotels’ public and private spaces. in the hotel you are more likely to dream and to remember your dreams is a drawing depicting the Edgewater Beach Hotel (1916-1971) mid-demolition. In the image, the building’s façade has been shorn off to expose the grid of rooms inside. The composite image is assembled from 350 loosely affixed Xeroxed paper sheets.

Vacancies, Reception, a sculpture with an embedded artist book, positions visitors into an encounter with a reception desk. The desk acts as a key boundary in the hotel, where permission is granted to cross from public to private space. Inspired by both single-room-occupancy and contemporary luxury hotel lobby reception desks, the sculpture can be approached from the vantage points of guest or employee.

Reception’s embedded book, Registration, incorporates original writing and text appropriated from hotel rules and regulations to imagine a 24-hour hotel visit. The book is in three voices—readers are invited to assume the perspectives of guests, hotel workers, and the buildings themselves.

Drawing Susy Bielak, larger project a collaboration with Bielak

20’ x 20’ mural drawing composed of 350 sheets of 11” x 17” paper; 5’ x 9’ x 4’ wood sculpture with embedded artist book (20” x 13”)

Wooden sculpture fabricated with Andi Crist

Created during Fall 2018 residency at Hyde Park Art Center for 2018-2019 Health Club exhibition, curated by Allison Peters Quinn

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